Planes are white and red the Canadians came instead.

My favorite kitchen shears are on sale. Love them so much I got another set.

I’d be couch locked with a party sized Cheetos bag watching cartoons and likely asleep soon.

I want the sword. I’ve got so much pine to chop from three ponderosa we had to drop for fire safety. Pine is fine for a good time. youtube.com/shorts/dJhtD...

This makes me unreasonably happy. The navigator is just silly with the virtual directories being year/month and tag. There are other little details but I'll leave you to find them all.

Maybe now I'll write more blogs.

So one day I was looking at Ghostty (thanks @mitchellh.com) in a TUI and I said I want this as my blog theme. So I sat down with @continue.dev and made it happen. justademo.sh The tech blog that looks like ghostty + zsh/nvim/starship.rs.

I had to get new glasses for reading and screen use. I went with clear frames for readers and black for screens. Just for this reason. In a bit when progressives come my way tortoise shell.

It was a weird summer. It really wore me down this year. I find myself not wanting to leave the mountains. May or may not be related to fogust.

I can’t find my Diet Coke picture… but I submit that @scott.hanselman.com might be the tech individual I most associate with Diet Coke.

Slap a new title on it, increase the pay bands, and market like your life depends on it because if you have a deeply technical product like, oh I don’t know AI, your life does in fact depend on hiring a lot of them.

Where the account is on fire and folks are spun because they stuck their neck out for this product. It’s a tough job with a short tenure. Most sales engineers move on in 18m, go back to eng, to product or product marketing. So you’re always recruiting.

Folks are talking about it and talking it up because as always there are enough engineers who like talking to people about their challenges. Folks who in this age are going to have to lean in hard on being a mile wide and an inch deep on their skills. Folks who get parachuted into crappy situations

Feels similar to my life before. Could have been called a sysadmin in years before. Was called an infrastructure engineer, dodged devops engineer, and now would probably have been called platform engineer.

… unfavorably. So it was the solution title for awhile. Engineer or architect. Meant nothing. Didn’t mean the person was particular technical. So now FDE. Just a way to get to a title for a hard role that you have to want to do.

I think I get it. My team at Docker was deeply technical. You could drop any of them in a prospective customer using any cloud, any tech stack, anywhere and they’d get them on the right path. The industry doesn’t call them engineers. Sales engineer is forever tainted. Product looks at that title…

First day of home alone I spent chipping wood with my brother in law. Scraping paint sounds like a way to feel like you got shit done.

And it blurs the lines between pre post, post sales, and proserv. I believe though it came from Palantir and similar where it was used for proserv folks that were bundled with the product and “deployed” for years implementing.

My first sales gig, I was a sales engineer, then at Docker I hired solutions engineers because sales wasn’t something engineers wanted on their resumes. Now I would be hiring these. If your product is technical and you need engineering support in the sales cycle you need a way to get folks onboard.